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The report says that Apple's $3,000 mixed reality headset is still planned for this year, probably followed up by a cheaper (but still expensive!) $1,500 model
by pavlov 4y ago
The report says that Apple's $3,000 mixed reality headset is still planned for this year, probably followed up by a cheaper (but still expensive!) $1,500 model by 2025.
IMHO this would be good news for Meta which has spent years figuring out how to ship this technology in a $400 consumer-level unit.
Apple's entry would validate the market, and make it more obvious what a good deal the Quest actually is (from a pure hardware POV — the quality of the software deal remains in argument).
- bookofjoe 4y agoI agree the Quest is a good deal at $399 (I paid $299, the original price) but is something still a good deal if it's no longer used and on a shelf with similar dusty inert equipment?
- pavlov 4y agoWell, it's certainly a better deal than paying $3,000 for the same result? What I'm trying to say is that Apple introducing such an expensive unit will make people take another look at the Quest as an option to see what the XR fuss is about. $400 is impulse buy territory for a lot of people who might be willing to try out the technology, while $3k isn't.
- bookofjoe 4y agoConcur
- chaostheory 4y agoSupposedly, the $3000 Apple mixed reality model is significantly cheaper than AR device that Apple just delayed.
- dragonwriter 4y agoAR/“Mixed reality” isn't VR. It’s VR plus low latency actual reality plus processing data from the actual reality to interact with VR. So, its not the same market as the $400 Quest, but the $3,500 Hololens.
- Someone 4y agoI doubt that Apple’s offer, if/when it comes, will give “the same result” as the $400 Quest.
- andybak 4y agoBut will it be 8x better?
- pavlov 4y agoIf the result is “sitting on a shelf unused”, yes, both $3000 and $400 devices are equally capable of that. (As my own history of excited gadget purchases bears testimony…) The point was, if you’re unsure whether you actually would keep using it, the Quest is a much cheaper way to scratch that VR/XR urge.
- LegitShady 4y agoMeta's $400 headset is not an AR platform, it's a VR platform.
- scyzoryk_xyz 4y agoTomato tomato
- m_eiman 4y agoAR and VR are very much not the same thing. VR is for replacing reality, AR is for putting (useful?) digital things on top of the real world.
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- andybak 4y agoThey are two extremes on a spectrum. AR approaches VR the more virtual elements are visible. And VR with passthrough is AR unless you're being pedantic.
- LegitShady 4y ago>And VR with passthrough is AR unless you're being pedantic. It isn't. It doesn't do what AR does. It's just an ease of use of feature. IUf you watch a security camera through a VR HMD is it AR? No, because none of the virtual world is being cast into the real world. It doesn't meet the basic requirements of being AR.
- andybak 4y agoHave you used any passthrough apps on VR headsets? I work on one and it's functionality is the same whether it runs on VR/passthrough or traditional AR hardware.
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